Exclusive update: Woman forced into trunk identified

A police report of an attack Sunday on a woman forced into her trunk at gunpoint identifies her as Kammi Whatley, a Caddo public defender.

Whatley, 43, was apparently found "laying unconscious in center of intersection" at East Kings Highway and Southfield Road at 8:19 p.m. on Feb. 8., according to the report.

After being forced into the trunk of her two-door 2015 Mercedes-Benz in the 3100 block of Knight Street, Whatley reportedly used an escape latch to escape.

Authorities are still looking for the two people responsible, said Shreveport Police department spokesman Cpl. Marcus Hines.

Hines said there is surveillance imagery of the male kidnappers, one of whom may have been wearing a bandanna over his face, confronting the woman as she was walking to her car. One was armed with a handgun, he said.

Whatley's Mercedes was discovered later Sunday night not far from the location where she was found, he said.

She suffered a head injury and was transported by ambulance to University Health Shreveport, Hines said.

There have not been any arrests made in the case, nor are there any suspects or persons of interest, Hines said. He said he doesn't know whether the kidnappers and Whatley knew each other.